Word: film
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hula (Clara Bow). In this film, Paramount proudly advertises its vivacious actress as the "IT" girl. Never was actress in more desperate need of that celebrated quality. She must portray an Irish-born girl, "gone native" in Hawaii despite the fact that her father, a wealthy planter, entertains at his uproarious carousals the smartest Hawaiian society. Among the constant company is a slim siren of sophisticated manner. This only makes it harder for primitive Hula to capture the cold Englishman engineer who shaves every day, even in the jungle. To add to her difficulties, the thin-lipped Nordic already...
...first few minutes the film works up to a climax when bulky Jean Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) on the point of murdering his benefactor in bed, finds his dagger has been turned powerless by kindness. Thereafter, come only a series of episodes, each of decreasing inten- sity, showing Valjean's achievements punctuated again and again by the fateful Javert...
...thug, notable for his wide-open laugh & easy-going gun. Only Buck Mulligan (Fred Kohler), who operates a florist's shop in the daytime, challenges Bull's underworld regency. So Bull "bumps him off," precipitating a police investigation and machine-gun play. These scenes roll off the film with a lusty realism that makes it all the more regrettable that the producers should have seen fit to resort to the invariable Hollywood alchemy of turning even the gunman's heart to gold. While in the death house, Bull is disturbed by only one loathsome thought. Suppose...
...Fighting Eagle (Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver). According to Conan Doyle's story, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, that hero's bombast was rivaled only by Emperor Napoleon's bombardment. The film shows Gerard bragging, boasting, swaggering and finally redeeming himself by helping the heroine recover important state papers from the wily Talleyrand. Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier. From that day forth, it is, "I sez to my friend, the Emperor...
Since that far-off day when "Willie" Hearst came to Manhattan his record has been one of astounding success in the field of publishing. He controls at least 25 newspapers, eight magazines, two press syndicates and film newsreels. His papers sell to over 3,000,000 people daily?or nearly 10% of the nation's total population...